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About Pierre du Toit
Pierre du Toit is getroud met Marie Rousselle (onbevestig), en het volgens familie-oorlewering met vier of vyf kinders uit Frankryk gevlug. Guillaume en Francois het na Suid-Afrika gekom, maar van die broer Bruno en ander is geen verdere inligting bekend nie.
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Provided by Kevin Oram:
Pierre Du Toit; born 28 October 1630, La Madeleine, Lille. Date and place of death unknown, but probably Leyden, Dutch Republic.
Pierre Du Toit married Marie Rousselle (born 19 January 1633 at Lille, died ca 1670 at Lille or Leyden). Pierre and Marie Du Toit had five children (Guillaume, Marie Anne, Marie Suzanne, Bruno and Francois Du Toit).
Pierre and Marie’s son Francois was baptised in La Madeleine Church at Lille on 15 September 1664, or perhaps at the adjacent parish Church of Saint Maurice on 5 April 1665. The likelihood is that the Francois baptised at La Madeleine is our Du Toit ancestor, as his godparents are recorded as being Jean Brian and Catherine Rousselle – perhaps a sister or other relative of Francois’ mother Marie Du Toit (nee Rouselle).
Pierre Du Toit appears to have left Lille, but whether before or after the death of his wife Marie is unknown. Perhaps he and the family were war refugees, fleeing the siege lines around Lille in the Summer of 1667. Alternatively, they may have survived the siege within the walls, and left the city some time after Lille was ceded to France by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668).
What we can say with some certainty is that Pierre Du Toit and family seem to have settled in Leyden (Leiden) for some time. There was a significant and prosperous Protestant community at Leyden, and amongst them were Du Toits who had been there since at least 1605. Whether these Du Toits were relatives of Pierre Du Toit has not been possible to establish with certainty.
There is an attestation dated September 1678 in the Leyden Reformed Church record of a Guillaume Du Toit, his wife and a daughter Marguerite. While this Guillaume Du Toit may be Pierre Du Toit’s son Guillaume, it is perhaps unlikely as he would probably have been born no earlier than about 1655, making him rather young (23) to have been married and had a daughter by 1678.
Though it is the subject of some academic debate amongst Du Toit researchers (cf Prof. Pieter Coertzen: The Huguenots of 1688-1988, Tafelberg Publishers 1988), the Guillaume Du Toit who became a member of the Walloon Congregation at Middelburg Reformed Church on 20 December 1684 is probably Pierre Du Toit’s son, the older brother of Francois Du Toit, and the Guillaume Du Toit who was granted a farm in Stellenbosch at the Cape some years later.
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Pierre du Toit's Timeline
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October 28, 1630
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Lille, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie, France
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| 1639 |
October 28, 1639
Age 9
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Saint Maurice, Lille, Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
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1662
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| 1664 |
September 15, 1664
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Ryssel, Flanders, Lille, France
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1664
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Lille, Flandre, France
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| 1670 |
1670
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| 1690 |
1690
Age 59
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Moontlik Leyden/Leiden, Nederland (Netherlands)
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Lille, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie, France
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